Dr Lisa Beaven
Dr Lisa Beaven is an a free-lance curator and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at La Trobe University. She is a specialist in the art and social history of early modern Italy, with fascination for travel and environmental history. She holds an MA from the University of Canterbury (NZ) and a PhD in Art History from the University of Melbourne. Her book, An Ardent Patron: Cardinal Camillo Massimo and his antiquarian and artistic circle in Rome was published by Paul Holberton Press, London, and Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, Madrid in 2010 to international critical acclaim. She has published widely in journals and edited books on aspects of the social life and culture of Rome in the seventeenth century.
Lisa has been leading ASA tours for many years, including Renaissance and Baroque Rome (a credit course taught with David Marshall from 1996-2011), Twentieth Century Architecture in Europe (credit course RMIT), and Sicily and Malta.
- An Ardent Patron: Cardinal Camillo Massimo and his antiquarian and artistic circle in Rome, Paul Holberton Press, London & Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, Madrid, 2010
- Renaissance and Baroque Rome – University of Melbourne (2000-2009)
- Twentieth Century Architecture and Urban Design in Europe – RMIT (1998, 2000)
- Sicily and Malta (1999)